How has contemporary Chinese art been evolving over the past decade? The answer will be found at a contemporary ink exhibition that opens on June 1, at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.
Although a photographer and painter by her own right, Dora Maar (1907-97) is better known as a lover and muse of Pablo Picasso.
More Chinese are customizing their journeys. Yang Feiyue discovers privacy and flexibility intersect with various price ranges to imbue value in increasingly popular personalized trips.
Theater from Inner Mongolia tours the Americas, but some urge greater marketing support for overseas visits. Yang Yang and Yuan Hui reports.
PALM BEACH, United States - An emerald-green 1970 Mercedes-Benz enters a red-brick driveway lined with swaying palm trees, a gentleman in white pants gets out, puts on his hat, softly flips his blazer, and walks into a hall of splendor. This is a common scene at the Breakers, a top-notch luxury hotel at Palm Beach, Florida. If we call Downton Abbey a period drama, then Palm Beach is a "period island" of the Gilded Age.
A woman is seen walking toward a spotlight onstage under which a circle is drawn in sand.
During a research trip to South Africa last summer, Zhang Chi visited several deprived areas to learn about the conditions facing the people who live in them. The first slum she visited was on the western outskirts of Cape Town, where the residents had built temporary shelters from sheets of iron and strips of linen on plots of deserted land.
A kite competition was held in Weifang in Shandong province.
Tourists enjoy themselves under peach trees in Tianjin.
The photographs point out that an environment full of vigor and harmony is needed by both man and animal.
When Gu Qin was a schoolboy, he used to help with his father's metal carving work in order to earn pocket money.